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The Lough Erne Golf & Hotel Resort was opened in October 2007 by Irish businessman Jim Treacy. It is situated on a 600-acre peninsula between Castle Hume Lough and Lower Lough Erne. On 12 May 2011 it was announced that the owner of the hotel, Castle Hume Leisure Limited, had gone into administration . [ 21 ]
The castle remained in Irish hands until it fell to the crown's Irish ally, Niall Garve O'Donnell in the summer of 1602. In 1607 Captain William Cole was given command of the castle. Cole remodelled and refurbished the castle adding the riverside tower at the south, known as the Watergate, in 1609. [1] He purchased the castle outright in 1623.
Hume Castle finally succumbed to the forces of Cromwell in 1650 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. James, 3rd Earl of Home was a prominent member of the Kirk Party . After Cromwell's successful investiture of Edinburgh Castle , he sent Colonel George Fenwick with two regiments to besiege the Earl's Castle.
This is a list of golf courses for the design of which American golf course architect A. W. Tillinghast was at least in part responsible. OD denotes courses for which Tillinghast is the original designer
In the course of the Erne Drainage Scheme (1951–1960) a bronze dirk and stone axes were recovered at this point. The castle is now in ruins, partly because a group of truanting school-boys from nearby Portora Royal School , now Enniskillen Royal Grammar School , experimenting with gunpowder they learnt how to create in chemistry class, blew ...
The grounds contain two castle-like buildings; Hempstead House is the main house (approx 50,000 square feet), and a larger house known as Castle Gould (approx 100,000 square feet). The main house measures 225 ft long (69 m), 135 ft wide (41 m) and has three floors containing 40 rooms, punctuated by an 80-foot tower (24 m). [ 2 ]
Killyhevlin Hotel is a hotel situated 1 km from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, just off the main A4 Dublin Road. It is a four star 70-bedroom hotel, with restaurant, spa, swimming pool and health club, on the shores of Lough Erne, surrounded by private grounds and gardens. The hotel was originally owned by Raymond B McCartney ...
The Earls of Home descend in the male line from Cospatric I (died after 1073), the Anglo-Danish Earl of Northumbria.His descendant William de Home (son of Sir Patrick de Greenlaw, the second son of Cospatric III, Earl of Lothian), adopted the surname following his acquisition of the lands of Home in Berwickshire during the early 13th century, through his marriage to his second cousin Ada (the ...